Scientists Prepare For 'The Most Beautiful Thing You Can See In The Sky'
You'd think that after hundreds of years of watching total solar eclipses, scientists would know all they'd need to about that particular phenomenon. You'd be wrong.
You might think that, after thousands of years of observing total solar eclipses, science-minded folks would have exhausted what can be learned from this awesome natural spectacle.
You would be wrong.
"I get asked all the time, why are we still doing eclipses for scientific purposes," says , an astronomer at Williams College in Massachusetts who chairs the International Astronomical Union's working group on solar
